Cornwall & Isles of Scilly celebrate 20 years of the CSA’s
The Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Sustainability Awards (CSA) have been running since 2002 when they were launched by Sir Jonathon Porritt. Having consistently grown year on year, CSA has become Cornwall’s leading initiative for rewarding and celebrating enterprises for their contribution to environmental growth and resource efficiency.
This year will mark the 20th year of the CSA’s with the award ceremony being held on Friday 9th December at Truro cathedral. Headline sponsors are the University of Exeter, Tevi, Green Works and Cornwall Council.
Dr Dan Bloomfield, Tevi Project manager said:
“Tevi are thrilled to be able to support the CSA’s in its 20th year. It’s always an uplifting and inspirational awards to attend, and this year we look forward to hearing a keynote speech from round the world skipper Nikki Henderson”.
Louise Osborne, Head of IIB, University of Exeter:
“The University of Exeter have a strong ‘green futures’ agenda and have been supporting organisations across Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly with their transition to more sustainable ways of working through our world class research, and business support services.
We’re delighted to be a headline sponsor at this year’s Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Sustainability Awards and look forward to recognising and celebrating the outstanding achievements taking place across the county”.
Each year a local organisation is commissioned to make the awards and this year Waterhaul will be creating them out of re-purposed PPE from Treliske Hospital. Categories for 2022 are as follows:
- Most Sustainable Organisation – sponsored by St Austell Printing Company & University of Exeter
- Growing greener: sustainable food & farming – sponsored by The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty & University of Exeter
- Circular Economy – sponsored by Arca & University of Exeter
- Environmental Growth – sponsored by The Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Hub, South West Water & University of Exeter
- Carbon Neutral – sponsored by Cornwall Association of Tourist Attractions, South West Water & Foot Anstey
- Overall Winner trophy (chosen from the winners of all the categories) – sponsored by Business Cornwall
The Cornwall Sustainability Awards are run by Cornwall Council in association with Tevi (Cornish for ‘grow’) which is a unique and exciting EU-funded venture to create both economic and environmental growth across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. This year we have been working with GreenWorks, a specialist environmental consultancy to support organisations with their applications.
Judges for the 2022 awards are:
- Kim Conchie, Chamber of Commerce
- Lord Robin Teverson, CIoS Local Nature Partnership
- Mark Duddridge, CIoS Local Enterprise Partnership
- Cllr Martin Alvey, Cornwall Council Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Environment
- Ann Van Der Meulen, Federation of Small Businesses
- Matt Hocking, LEAP
- Tanya Saker, Council of the Isles of Scilly
